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When in 1645 Milton finally publishes that first volume of poetry, the first poem that he places in this volume is the Nativity Ode, our poem today.

当1645年出版了首个诗集，他把《圣诞清晨歌》放在最前面，就是我们今天看到的这首诗。

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What Milton is primarily interested in in his Nativity Ode is the redemption, the promise of what Christ's Nativity will do at some future point for mankind.

弥尔顿在基督诞生颂歌里最感兴趣的是,救赎，基督诞生后在将来,在将来能为人类做些什么。

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And possibly the most conjunct of all melodies in the history of music was the melody that we looked at very briefly in the first gathering, and that is Beethoven's famous Ode to Joy.

大概在音乐史上,最为级进的旋律,是我们第一堂课上撇过一眼的,贝多芬的《欢乐颂》

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You may remember that I had suggested in the lecture on the Nativity Ode that Milton may have thought of his career as if it were something like a race.

你们可能记得我在的演说中,曾经设想的，弥尔顿或许把他的职业,看作无休止的竞赛与追逐。

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Suddenly, the literary genre that Milton is writing in is no longer this triumphant classical ode.

突然弥尔顿所用的文学风格,不再是这个胜利的古典颂歌。

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But there's an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that he had written.

但我有种非常强烈的感觉,弥尔顿好像还是想让人觉得,《圣诞清晨歌》才是他的第一首诗。

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And this is exquisitely visible to us in the Nativity Ode.

这在《圣诞清晨歌》里可以很清楚的看出来。

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Milton clearly wants us to know that this Nativity Ode was written by a young Londoner in 1629, but it's a poem that is at the same time deliverable to the infant Christ by some extraordinary violation, of course, of all of the established laws of temporal sequence.

显然弥尔顿想让我们了解这首《圣诞清晨歌》,是在1629由一位伦敦年轻人写的，但是它同时也是一首,通过非同寻常的方法能够交到圣婴手里的诗，当然这就需要他违反现有的一系列法律。

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And the ode, too -- the form in which this poem is written is a pagan form invented by the Greek poet Pindar to express the sublimities of emotion arising from a contemplation of the actions of the gods.

而颂歌这首诗的形式,是由希腊抒情诗人品达尔发明,来抒发从思考上帝的行为中,得到的崇高情感。

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Now Milton was born in 1608 and he wrote the Nativity Ode along with the Sixth Elegy, the Elegia Sexta, that we read for today in December of 1629, a couple of weeks presumably after he turned twenty-one.

弥尔顿出生于1608年,并于1629年12月写下《圣诞清晨歌》,《第六挽歌》和《Elegia，Sexta》,大概是他刚过21岁后两周。

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